Greetings from Toronto

Greetings from Toronto 

I hope all of you who sent me  emails have received an invitation . I have already seen some great posts, so  keep blogging. It is a bit complicated to work out the deadline this time  with me being in a different time zone.  Although it is usually 12 midnight on Sunday   ( Sri Lankan  time ) we can give a  little advantage for the first time posts. It is only 6.00 pm Sunday evening here. 

Remember to publish your post once it is done, I see a number of drafts still. 

Please let me know if you have any issues

Instructions fellow Bloggers : 

• You will get an invitation to post on the blog 
• You must create a new post based on the visits made during the week (you may choose the topic for the first week) 
• Include, photos, comments, quotes/links to your post
• Please ask for permission before you take any photographs 
• The format is given for the post
• Each student must post on or before 12  midnight on Sunday of the week and if you fail to do so you will have to write an additional post for the week. 
• Each student must submit the required number of posts to the blog to complete the clerkship appointment

Community Medicine Clerkship Programme

Objectives 

Community Medicine clerkship is designed to facilitate medical students to gain knowledge, skills and perspectives of community health that are necessary to practice as a doctor in any part of Sri Lanka. 

The specific educational objectives of the clerkship focus on exposing you to preventive health care in Sri Lanka through an understanding of the community context of health, illness and health care.  It is hoped that the clerkship will help foster an informed sense of social responsibility, accountability in you and develop skills and attitudes needed to a become capable, empathic and caring doctor.